OK, to be honest, MS hasn't sold SQL to Oracle. I just needed a catchy title to make sure you read this post. I follow the rule that if you don't have anything brilliant to say, then point to someone ...

<="" span="">="left" bgcolor="#FFFBEC" width="33%" valign="middle">Problem: Growing traffic forces e-commerce Web site to overhaul its infrastructure. Solution ...

As you will see in this chapter, companies use SQL Server for many types of applications and on most tiers now. Gone are the days when you would second guess yourself choosing to use SQL Server over a ...

I'm trying to transfer some data between identical tables in SQL server and Oracle (from SQL Server to Oracle), using the MS-SQL Data Transfer wizard, but its default conversion routines are treating ...

Microsoft porting SQL Server to Linux is not an early April Fool's joke. The company is deadly serious about this move. Some people are asking why. After all, with MySQL, MariaDB, postgreSQL, and ...

A bit of background: I just started work for this company. We're not exactly a Fortune 500 company, but we're not small either. We're planning on investing in a database server, first to power the ...